No it isn't. You only think so because your deliberately choosing not to read Butcher's statement the way it was given and have found your very own definition for "power level" to apply here.
That's why you think the metaphor works, not because it makes sense here. A better comparison would be Mab and Titania.
Strongly disagree.
Mab and Titania would be peers, who play in the same weight class, and who in a 1v1 fight literally come down to a coin toss.
They wouldnt be described as similar, they would be described as the same power level.
Butcher notably didnt quote Uriel and Nemesis as peers, and never has.
He's never even described Nemesis and any of the angels as peers.
No idea what this is supposed to prove. I'll just remind you that Outsiders are limited in what they can do in reality, especially without all of themselves there.
What it demonstrates is the hierarchy, what Abridged!Popo would call the pecking order
v), and what it means for tiers and threat ratings. Walkers are the....not minions, but minibosses for a god/gods that were kicked outside of the Outer Gates and have been kept there by the efforts of beings that rate rather less than basic angels.
The Fallen are also limited in what they can do in reality, but while sufficiently prepared wizards can contest Nemesis and its siblings, they cant actually contest Lucifer's homies. Not on their own.
Their mortal hosts sure, but not the Fallen themselves.
Keeping the Outsiders out at the Gates has been left largely to first gods, and now Fae, with a mortal wizard's involvement.
And yet the Fae actually go outside the Outer Gates, and fight the armies of the Outside to a standstill.
Meantime, the Fallen got 3 angels embodied in Swords and dedicated to keeping a boot on their necks almost as soon as they crawled out of Hell.
That tells me who the White God's faction considers an issue beyond the native inhabitants of this plan, and who arent.
So I dont find the limitations angle all that credible for explaining the pecking order inside Creation.
Not when Winter regularly goes out and fights them under their own terms Outside, where they cant actually complain about leaving any power behind.
Im not saying that the limitations dont exist.
But that even without them, it self-evidently doesnt allow them to overwhelm the Fae Courts, let alone put them in the class of members of the Celestial Host.
Hardly just my opinion. The vast majority would see it this way, your just being thick headed and obtuse about it. If Butcher meant something else he would've used different wording. He used a well known term with a commonly accepted meaning.
I've tracked down the passage and quoted it.
I think your interpretation, in line of the context where it was made, is wrong.
A net success on one side shouldn't change the initiation of a conversation, but in any case stonewalling him like that didn't take the opportunity to set an alternative to muddy the waters.
Odin is an intelligence broker and a man with an obscene number of secrets. I don't think he was threatening to immediately murder Molly or has failed to make the obvious observations about her relationship with the church, but when a guy standing on a huge pile of secrets tell you that people with something to hide aren't going to be happy about something it implicitly puts him in the same group.
Well, it does. I dont know what else to tell you. Thats how ExWoD is mechanically designd to function, as far as Im aware.
Talking about edging towards deception against someone with unknown information-gathering and archival resources, someone on whose friendly side we were endeavoring to stay, would have been foolish IMO.
You cant muddy the waters if the other guy has sonar. Or X-ray vision.
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Odin is, among other things, an intelligence broker, but I think you misunderstand what that means in this scenario.
The dude was pretty openly a major god for millenia before accepting the new order, and there are significant sections of the supernatural who remember. Just like Corb remembers Mab in her youth pining after Merlin.
Stuff thats unknown to us Johnny-Come-Latelys are not necessarily secrets in the "Noone else knows" category.
Its just that the supernatural does not believe in all this "information wants to be free" philosophy.
You pay for information, and its usually a seller's market.
